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You suppose that geeks make up a significant portion of Microsoft's market. You couldn't be more wrong.
Not geeks but laymen (most people are in that category). I can already imagine people struggling to handle the new interface, the usual question is:
Where is my Start Menu?But I'll have to agree to the fact that this won't make them switch to Linux (or anything) and MS knows that very
well, they would still want all the familiar things like MS Office, Internet Explorer etc, and the reason that they don't like the newer UI is they aren't familiar with it, so why would they switch to Linux? The Linux UIs (KDE, Gnome, Unity etc.) seem to be more alien to me than the Windows 8 UI. So MS has done it cleverly, they know people have no other option than Windows..... (on PCs!), so they'll have to keep using it and get used to it..
As for Windows 8 on Tablets/Mobile Phones it's not going to be a success, Android already dominates that area.
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it's all the bugs and all the bloat. I don't see Microsoft being able to add too many more layers
Yes, my Ubuntu Distribution crashed while copying 5GB files to my external HD, had to use Windows. In
some cases Open-Source drivers/programs are of much pain than Proprietary ones. There is no such thing as Open-Source == Not Buggy and Proprietary == Buggy, everything has bugs, it's just that in open-source software they're repaired quickly (not in all cases!), as anyone from the entire world can report a bug by directly looking at the sources. However MS may know more than what's given in the manuals, i386 undocumented LOADALL instruction which was used in DOS comes to mind.